TR-H-0193 :1996.5.21

Shin ISHII, Masa-aki SATO

Doubly constrained network for combinatorial optimization

Abstract:In this paper, we propose a new approach for solving combinatorial optimization problems having two competing sets of constraints. In our approach, those constraints are treated as “hard,” namely, they hold automatically. Experimental results for traveling salesman problems show that our approach can obtain better solutions even for large-scale problems than binary or Potts spin approaches.